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The writers, more than ever, are full of shit and hubris



This is about the ep, The Big Ugly.

They have no idea how much they reveal of their wafer-thin understanding of everything, perhaps assuming that the target audience is immersed in their phones while this crap provides background noise.

Even to THINK of letting Michael Prince be the final Olympic torchbearer, entering the stadium and igniting the Olympic Flame?!! Sputter . . sputter . . sputter . . . SNEER! . . . Apoplectic chest-grab and stumble! ONLY a great athlete gets that honor, like Paavo Nurmi at Prague or Muhamed Ali at Los Angeles. A robber-baron DOES NOT EVER get to light The Flame.

I spent several years learning how to train and work with dogs trained for personal protection, who are commonly mis-identified as Attack Dogs. We do not starve our dogs. They are not taught to kill. Someone like me does not have a hierarchy of feeding my dog. He gets the best food there is. He is a pedegreed descendant of Rin-Tin-Tin. A dog like this is trained ONLY to meet the level of threat aggression with THE SAME level of aggression . Not 1 jot more. “Keeping the dog hungry” may be grist for the damnable dog fight circuit. It has NO PURPOSE in the world of Personal Protection canines.

Also, Rule 1 for a PP canine owner: you. MUST be stronger than your dog. You have to be able to restrain and discipline your animal when necessary. You and your dog are a pack of 2. It’s in your dog’s blood always to be testing which of you is leader of the pack.

PS I take great pleasure in pointing out that the writers, so smug in themselves, have still not learned that the word “none” is SINGULAR and not plural, as in “none of them HAS” and not “none of them HAVE.”

“None” = “no one.”

It’s not rocket science.

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I'm in the middle of the 5th season. I'm amazed at the writing. They are always throwing you curve balls. The marriages that fall apart stay that way. Everyone finds new lovers. Rhodes Jr becomes more corrupt overtime. Wendy Rhodes pop psychology is just mind blowing sometimes - yet she takes her lumps like everyone else. The cancer dr who ends up in jail gets revenge. McAfee is a true candidate for Mensa. The fun new millenial chick tells her boss "you're trying to own me & that's not cool." Then walks out. The goofy buck tooth guy likes her.

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But I think the characters are great. I can't stop binge watching.

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